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# **Jeff Appel**

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## University of Denver

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                    ![Hanging Garlands of Flowers on the Chains That Bind: the Soft Totalitarianism of Technological Rationality and the Possibilities for Emancipatory Praxis.](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp)

### **Hanging Garlands of Flowers on the Chains That Bind: the Soft Totalitarianism of Technological Rationality and the Possibilities for Emancipatory Praxis.**

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### **Hanging Garlands Of Flowers On The Chains That Bind – Soft Totalitarianism and Techno-Rationality (Jeff Appel)**

This article was originally a paper delivered at the conference “Reclaiming the Unconscious – On The Intersection of Psychoanalysis With the Humanities,”

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### **Review – The Search For Transcendence In The “Material Phenomenology” of David Foster Wallace (Jeff Appel)**

*Miller, Adam S. The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction. New York: Bloomsburg Academic, 2016 It highlights

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